…essays more, though maybe not as much as my personal statement (I did nine major revisions to that over the span of a month). Otherwise, I think there was a bit of bad timing involved in applying the same cycle as the huge application increase and elections. Being strung along for 100+ days by 12 of these schools…
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Admitted to University of Alabama…law or public service, I marked with an asterisk. Personal Statement:- I am a creative writer and I believe it played to my advantage when writing my PS. I shared a very vivid story about my family and I growing up homeless and impoverished and how these experiences alongside my work in juvenile justice is what…
…I only used 7Sage and took around 30 PTs total. Personal Statement Objectively I’d say my personal statement was around a 6/10. I feel that it was fairly well written, but the narrative was on the weaker side, it was but wasn’t about me (talked a lot about family members), and while I did address “Why law?” it was a…
…the UChiacgo app and was rewarded accordingly. Personal Statement: I struggled with this. I felt like I had no significant life experiences that would help me stand out, and writing about the pandemic I knew was going to be overdone. So I was basically cornered into writing about pre-college, which I was concerned…
LGBTQ+, hopefully headed for Boston BL! Personalized PS paragraphs for each school, diversity statement; usually wrote the optional essays but only up to a point. Wrote every scholarship essay Vandy threw at me. Also, truly terrible interviewer with GULC that hadn’t read my resume and didn’t even know if I had…
Wrote a diversity statement (that was unrelated to being an URM), “why x” for Michigan and Berk, interviewed with WashU, and did optional essays whenever available.
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